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Virgil van Dijk has ACL Injury

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This was a terrible foul by Jordan Pickford - VAR too busy looking at a possible offside rather than ask the ref to look at this. How was this missed by both them and the ref ? Not even a free kick or yellow card - straight red in my opinion.

 
An absolutely shocking challenge by Pickford and not his first of this nature as he did something rather similar on Deli Ali before. So even with VAR he escapes any punishment which is just crazy !. Can't believe despite him being backed by Carlo after the game he will be upgraded at Everton and really hope so as then at least Southgate may give one of his limited options for England a chance.

For VAR then to ultimately disallow the late winner with it looking onside seems to me that mistakes made by on the pitch officials can now also be made in Stockley Park which is not really progress.
 
The FA won't be retroactively banning Pickford because David Coote saw the incident on VAR and didn't think it's a red card and they don't want to undermine him, which is a ridiculous stance to take.
 
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The FA won't be retroactively banning Pickford because David Coote saw the incident on VAR and didn't think it's a red card and they don't want to undermine him, which is a ridiculous stance to take.

Indeed, they've lost their 'I didn't see it at the time' excuse, even if they had, because now it has been replayed about a hundred times in super slow motion and they still get it wrong!
 
As not banning Pickford they should ban David Coote for choosing to take no action after seeing such a blatant and dangerous foul. There are consequences for most people at work when they make such a bad mistake why should it be any different for a VAR official.
 
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